Category: 2012-2013 Season

It is a long running assumption that when an audience sees a stage manager on stage, there must be something wrong. I have been that person in all black slinking on stage in the middle of a scene attempting to fix a problem, whether it be a fallen piece of scenery, covering a hole in...

As we prepare to open Master Class in the Daniels Pavillion at The Philharmonic Center for the Arts, we turn our focus to former opera diva Maria Callas. This play takes inspiration from Callas’ life, and is set after Callas has lost her voice and has taken to teaching master classes at Juilliard. Throughout this...

I was so happy when the opportunity to partner with the Philharmonic Center for the Arts came up. I jumped at the chance to produce this play about our greatest opera diva, La Divina, Maria Callas, in such a perfect setting. And so the fun began. First, the small stuff: how could we both sell...

Johnnie Hobbs, Jr. is playing Simon in “The Whipping Man”. Myself, James Ijames and Cody Nickell, under the direction of Matt Pfeiffer engaged in a production of The Whipping Man about a year and a half ago in Philadelphia at the Arden Theatre. The memories of that experience will remain indelible. Moving forward to our first read...

THE WHIPPING MAN, the intense civil war era drama currently on the Gulfshore Playhouse stage, is playwright Matthew Lopez’s first play. In the growing popularity of this touching play, Lopez himself is receiving more and more attention. Gulfshore Playhouse had the honor to interview Lopez, read below to see his insights into the play itself,...

Thanksgiving weekend of 2011, with a stomach full of tryptophan, I made my way to Philadelphia to see a show called “The Whipping Man” in which our soon-to-be Artistic Associate, Cody Nickell was starring. For over 20 years, the Arden Theatre has been producing great theatre in Philadelphia, and this show was no exception. I...

Well another show is in the books at Gulfshore Playhouse. The Importance Of Being Earnest has ended its record breaking run and we have moved onto the next show, The Whipping Man. In fact, we started rehearsals for The Whipping Man during the final week of performances of Earnest, and for yours truly, that meant...

A.J. Shively is playing Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest While accepting his Oscar for LINCOLN, Daniel Day Lewis thanked his wife for “living with some very strange men” over the course of his career. He is known for never breaking character while filming a role, living as the person he is portraying...

Hanley Smith is playing Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest There is an old Irish proverb that states: “Laughter is brightest where food is best.” Well, it seems our inimitable Irish playwright, Mr. Wilde, could not agree more, for food is very much present in The Importance of Being Earnest. But what goes...

William Connell is playing Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest Ahhhhh……TECH. The time when we put “IT” all together. Lighting, the set, costumes and our acting are all thrown into a dark room with an expletive enunciated prayer to gestate for 2 long days. After that, if all goes well,…… A SHOW!! I’m...